M3OYQ Amateur Radio Station

After spending a wiile programming and letting M3WFO and M0GGO trial the software, I finally converted my current logbook to the visual format using the wordpress HamXlog plugin.

Been playling around with some code this weekend, and had the idea of plotting my logbook using the Google Maps API.  Looking in my logbook however I don’t have many contacts with their Maidenhead Grid Locator, so looking back through my email I found a copy of M0GGO’s Ham radio deluxe database., from early 2007. Using php+mysql+javascript+Mdb tools I created this map of Chris’s Contacts.  The page takes a little while to load as there is quite a lot of data here.  I’ve added a couple of the fields from the database to the tags so when you click on a marker a bit of info about the QSO is printed to the screen.  Different colour icons represent different bands worked, however I ran out of icons so some of the bands share the same colour.

Check out the Visual Logbook Google Map HERE It takes about a minute for all the markers to load on to the map - please be patient

Let me know what you think.  :)  I’m thinking of making this into a blog plugin is anyone is interested